From: Sonali Film (email suppressed)
Date: Wed Nov 15 2006 - 09:27:38 PST
MoMA PRESENTS SURVEY OF FILMS EXHIBITED AT THE BLACK
MARIA FILM FESTIVAL OVER THE PAST 25 YEARS
Films by Chris Landreth, Tracey Moffatt, Bill
Morrison, Robert
Rodriguez, and Jay Rosenblatt Included in Series
BLACK MARIA FILM FESTIVAL: THE LEGACY OF THE SHORT
FILM
November 18–22, 2006
The Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters
NEW YORK, November 1, 2006—The Museum of Modern Art
presents a
selection of short films presented at the Black Maria
Film Festival over the past 25 years. The 52-film
exhibition Black Maria Film Festival: The
Legacy of the Short Film, is presented November 18–22,
2006, in The Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters. The
exhibition of eight programs includes work by emerging
filmmakers as well as early work by established
filmmakers such as Robert Rodriguez, Tracey Moffatt,
and Bill Morrison. On November 20, an entire program
of work by Suzan Pitt will be presented as part of the
MediaScope series. Organized by Sally Berger,
Assistant Curator, Department of Film and Media; with
John Columbus, Director, Black Maria Film Festival.
The Black Maria Film Festival was named after the
American birthplace
of the motion picture—Thomas Edison’s West Orange, NJ,
laboratory—a revolving photographic studio called the
Black Maria because it resembled a police wagon. Over
the last 25 years, founding director John Columbus has
overseen this alternative festival, which embraces the
diversity and adventurousness of the cinematic short
form. The festival provides many directors with their
earliest exhibition opportunities and brings to the
public many avant-garde and idiosyncratic talents.
Works by Tony Buba, Abigail Child, Barbara Hammer, Jay
Rosenblatt, and Chris Landreth, director of the
Oscar-winning animated short film Ryan (2005), are all
included in this exhibition.
The festival also provides an important, one-of-a-kind
distribution
outlet for short films, traveling each year to over 70
sites and reaching
audiences throughout the U.S. and Europe. Through this
arrangement
these films gain hard-to-obtain exposure to
international audiences while the cinematic palette of
audiences at these non-traditional venues is broadened
by the wide-ranging material on view.
BLACK MARIA FILM FESTIVAL: THE LEGACY OF THE SHORT
FILM
SCREENING SCHEDULE
All films are presented by John Columbus and a
selection of filmmakers. All are from the U.S., unless
otherwise noted.
Saturday, November 18
6:30 Program 1: Three American directors discovered in
the festival’s
first years
Mill Hunk Herald. 1980. Tony Buba.
Braddock Food Bank. 1985. Buba.
Fade Out. 1998. Buba.
Secondary Currents. 1982. Peter Rose.
The Man Who Could Not See Far Enough. 1998. Rose.
Sanctus. 1990. Barbara Hammer. Silent.
Program 96 min.
8:30 Program 2: Recent work by five prolific
filmmakers
Viscera. 2005. Leighton Pierce.
The Future Is behind You. 2005. Abigail Child.
Phantom Limb. 2006. Jay Rosenblatt.
Ideas of Order in Cinque Terre. 2005. Ken Kobland.
A Time to Die. 2005. Joe Gibbons.
Program 98 min.
Sunday, November 19
1:00 Program 3: Personal and multicultural nonfiction
stories
Glass Jaw. 1991. Michael O’Reilly.
Gifts from My Father. 1997. Kim McNabb.
Ame Noire—Black Soul. 2002. Canada. Martine Chartrand.
Vision Test. 2002. Wes Kim.
Famous Irish Americans. 2003. Roger Beebe.
Lot 63, Grave C. 2005. Sam Green.
Pleasures of Urban Decay. 1999. Samuel Ball.
The Memory Box. 2005. Jane Steuerwald.
Program 90 min.
3:00 Program 4: Animation and Special Effects 1
When the Day Breaks. 1999. Canada. Wendy Tilby, Amanda
Forbis.
S.P.I.C. The Storyboard of My Life. 2004. Robert
Castillo. Excerpt.
Ryan. 2005. Canada. Chris Landreth.
Strange Invaders. 2001. Cordell Barker.
Goodnight Norma, Goodnight Milton. 1988. John Schnall.
OuterSpace. 1999. Austria/Canada. Peter Tscherkassky.
Copy Shop. 2001. Belgium. Virgil Widrich.
Fast Film. 2003. Belgium. Widrich.
Program 70 min.
5:00 Program 5: Animation and Special Effects 2
River Lethe. 1985. Amy Kravitz.
Master of Ceremonies. 1987. Chris Sullivan.
What Happened. 1991. Richard Kizu-Blair.
The Janitor. 1993. Vanessa Schwartz.
Capillary Action. 1997. Australia. Paul Winkler.
Moschops. 2000. Jim Trainor.
Tender Bodies. 2003. James Duesing.
The Penguins and the Mice. 2001. Tim Szetela.
Elements of Light. 2004. Richard Reeves.
Linear Dreams. 1997. Reeves.
I Am Not Van Gogh. 2005. David Russo.
Nibbles. 2003. Christopher Hinton.
Program 83 min.
Monday, November 20
6:30 Program 6: Animation 3
MediaScope: An Evening with Suzan Pitt.
8:30 Program 7: Experimental investigations of cinema,
history, and
memory
Art of Memory. 1987. Woody Vasulka.
Decodings. 1988. Michael Wallin.
Spiral. 1987. Emily Breer.
A Knowledge They Cannot Lose. 1989. Nina Fonoroff.
The Imagined, the Longed-for, the Conquered, and the
Sublime. 1995.
Roddy Bogawa.
A.W.O.L. 2004. Robert Banks.
Here. 2006. Fred Worden.
Program 96 min.
Wednesday, November 22
5:00 Program 8: Groundbreaking narrative shorts
Night Cries a Rural Tragedy. 1990. Australia. Tracey
Moffatt.
Bedhead. 1991. Robert Rodriguez.
Seven Hours to Burn. 1999. Shanti Thakur.
Ghost Trip. 2000. Bill Morrison.
Burn. 2002. Reynold Reynolds.
Electrocute Your Stars. 2005. Mary Losier.
Program 77 min.
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